Agatha Christie

a.k.a.Agatha (nee) Miller Christie, Dame Agatha Christie

Author Code: EACX

Born: Sep. 15, 1890 - Torquay, England

Died: Jan. 12, 1976 - Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England

Christie's early education was at home where her mother encouraged her to write. She studied music in Paris and became an accomplished pianist, but she preferred a literary career. She married Archibald Christie, A Royal Flying Corps officer, in 1914 and during the war worked in a Red Cross hospital. Her time in the hospital dispensary gave her knowledge of poisons which she would later use to good effect in many of her novels. She published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920 in which she introduced her ever-popular detective, Hercule Poirot. Christie divorced in 1926; her husband having fallen in love with another woman. Obviously disturbed, Christie disappeared for a while causing a mild uproar in the press and led to her husband offering a reward for news of her whereabouts. She was found some weeks later, claiming to have had amnesia. In 1930, Christie introduced her other famous sleuth, Miss Jane Marple, in The Murder at the Vicarage Her works were immensely popular and successful and provided for her complete financial independence. In 1930, she married Max Mallowan, a young archaeologist who she accompanied on many of his trips to the Middle East. During the Second World War, she once again worked in a hospital dispensary. Christie was a prolific writer, producing plays, short stories and over 70 novels. In 1971, she was made a Dame of the British Empire. Her best-known works include The Man in the Brown Suit (1924), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937), Ten Little Niggers (1939), A Murder is Announced (1950), The Mousetrap (1952), Witness for the Prosecution (1954), The Pale Horse (1961), Passenger to Frankfurt (1970) and An Autobiography(1977).

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EACX012

The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

1951

11

171k

EACX007

And Then There Were None

1939

145

485k

EACX028

Appointment With Death

1937

132

464k

EACX034

At the 'Bells and Motley'

1930

14

160k

EACX005

The Blue Geranium

1928

11

173k

EACX025

The Case of the City Clerk

1934

11

153k

EACX018

The Case of the Discontended Soldier

1934

13

211k

EACX022

The Case of the Discontented Husband

1932

10

146k

EACX021

The Case of the Distressed Lady

1932

8

153k

EACX016

The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife

1934

10

190k

EACX020

The Case of the Perfect Maid

1942

10

137k

EACX011

The Case of the Retired Jeweller

1942

11

162k

EACX026

The Case of the Rich Woman

1934

11

151k

EACX031

The Coming of Mr. Quin

1930

14

161k

EACX017

Death on the Nile - 1

1934

12

174k

EACX015

Four and Twenty Blackbirds

1940

11

167k

EACX023

The Gate of Baghdad

1934

13

155k

EACX027

Have You Got Everything You Want?

1934

10

154k

EACX024

The House at Shiraz

1934

10

191k

EACX009

In a Glass Darkly

1934

6

152k

EACX008

Investigation By Telegram

1958

10

172k

EACX004

The Last Seance

1933

13

175k

EACX032

Moving Finger

1942

111

422k

EACX001

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

1920

135

559k

EACX006

The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

1924

9

169k

EACX019

The Oracle at Delphi

1934

10

158k

EACX029

The Outraged Heart

1946

110

446k

EACX030

The Pearl of Price

1934

10

142k

EACX003

Poirot and the Triangle at Rhodes

1936

12

166k

EACX002

The Secret Adversary

1922

177

698k

EACX033

The Shadow on the Glass

1930

16

158k

EACX010

Sing a Song of Sixpence

1934

15

168k

EACX014

Strange Jest

1944

9

160k

EACX013

The Third-Floor Flat

1929

14

171k

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